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Coloffus of brass, esteemed one of the wonders of the world; one foot being placed on one fide of the harbour, and the other foot on the other fide, fo that fhips in full fail paffed between its legs. The face of the Coloffus represented the fun, to whom the image was dedicated. This enormous ftatue, which was one hundred and thirty-five feet high, was thrown down by an earthquake, and finally deftroyed by Maovia, the Saracen Admital, A. D. 653, who entirely pulled it to pieces, and fold the metal, weighing feven hundred and twenty thousand pounds, to a Jew, who is faid to have loaded nine hundred camels to transport it to Alexandria. Between this island and the island Crete, so called from its chalky cliffs, and alfo Candia, from their whiteness, lies the isle Canpathus, now called by the failors Scarpantide. Beyond these, eastward, lies the Cheledoniæ, or the fmall ifland of Swallows, where the ancients fuppofed the birds of flight to lie hid during the winter, near the great promontory Patareum. Within the bay of Pamphilia, eastward ftill, lies fertile Cyprus, the beloved ifland of Venus, the inhabitants of which still continue remarkably lazy and effeminate. And on the farthest part of this fea, near Phoenicia, lies the ifland Arcadus.

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Queftions formed for the Exercife of the Pupil.

HOW many Cyclades are there, and which is the principal ?

For what is Delos celebrated?

Which are the Sporades, or Spread Islands ?

To what clafs do the islands of Lefbos and Tenedos belong?

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How is Rhodes fituated, and for what is it famous ?

When was the brazen Coloffus thrown down, and

by whom was it finally destroyed?

From what does the island Crete take its name?
What is faid of the Cheledoniæ ?
Where is the island of Cyprus?

How is the inland Arcadus fituated?

LETTER XXXI.

In my laft we were vifiting the Afiatic islands

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dispersed about the Levant: We will now return, if you pleafe, and take a view of thofe in the eastern, or Indian ocean; the farthest of which are the Mariana or Ladrones, that is Latrones, or the iflands of Thieves, inhabited by rude and unpolished people; from whence, directing our courfe northward, we arrive at the island of Japan, whofe chief city is Jeddo. Having paffed the islands Lekeo and Formofa, with others of smaller extent adjacent to the coaft of China, and fubject to that empire, we come, to the Philippine Islands, subject to Spain, fo called in the year 1543, in honour of Prince Philip, then heir to the Spanish crown; there are fome hundreds of them, and several very large; the chief and moft northerly is Manilla, called alfo Luconia, having in it two cities of those names. It is about four hundred miles long and a hundred miles in breadth.

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Proceeding fouthward from the Philippines, we arrive at the Molucca iflands, famous for

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